Chairwoman: Amy Ziegler, Shareholder, Greer, Burns & Crain / USA

09:30

OVERVIEW

IP IN AEROSPACE: AN OVERVIEW OF MAJOR ISSUES

The aeronautics industry is a market of unabating change. With new entrants in the aeronautics landscape, such as China, Canada or Brazil, confronting current players from this competitive environment with new technologies, size and vehicles, and a new timeframe for the future, intellectual property is the key to success. Why?

How is the market changing and what more is still to come?

Collaborating with partners and competitors: can this be a win-win?

Intellectual property at a global level: how regional and national differences and changes are affecting the global market

The emerging IP challenges on the new horizon

How do the Aeronautics / Aerospace stream create optimal value using IP in our business?

Satish Tiwary, Head IP Airbus India, Airbus / India

Chairwoman: Sasha G. Rao, Partner, Maynard Cooper & Gale / USA

14:05

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

The supply chain for aerospace is a complex system with OEMs, Tier 1s and 2s, and many more players involved. With the addition of connected, autonomous, and electrified, embedded systems components, the complexity is growing. How to manage IP in the supply chain and into industrial production?

Ownership in data necessary for regulatory approval procedures

Know-how protection in the course of such regulatory procedures but also in the supply and manufacturing chain

Liability for IP infringements – responsibility for freedom to operate searches and SEP/FRAND

Toni Hickey, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Cummins / USA

Chairwoman: Claudia Milbradt, Partner, Clifford Chance / Germany

14:50

Blockchain has been making headlines with innovative and speculative applications in various sectors and is now making its way to the IP ecosystem. Blockchain technology allows transactions to be recorded on a “decentralized ledger. By way of example, the blockchain could be imagined to serve as a decentralized record of IP registrations or validations and thus support management of IP assets and, in particular, their ownership.

Potential Blockchain applications in the IP ecosystem:

Ideas generation: Individuals and companies could identify their own innovation and place it on record on the blockchain to resolve costly legal challenges around the initial creation of an idea that has not been immediately protected.

Ownership and licensing: The industry could benefit from clear and authoritative ownership and licensing records of IP assets - recorded via the Blockchain

IP transactions: Does Blockchain represent an opportunity to reduce complexity in the recordal of ownership and changes in ownership of registered IP rights, leading to more effective and simpler management of IP?

15:20

RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

The aerospace industry landscape has seen a wave of new entrants from countries - such as Brazil, China and Canada - and with them numerous new tier 1 and tier 2 subcontractors. How do we protect our investment in Research & Technology and Innovation in such an environment using IP? What are the IP challenges in the context of agile innovation models such as innovation clusters, start-ups and sole entrepreneurs? IP remains at the heart of business, but it does its use need to be rethought?

How to strategise IP with emerging partners, alternative suppliers, new entrants?

How do we deal with the IP challenges arising from joint ventures, Joint Integrated Projects, shared innovation?

Who is leading the path to the future of innovation in aerospace & defense (incumbents and new entrants) How do we deal with the IP challenges arising?

Examples from the automotive industry, drones, 3D printing and cybersecurity

16:05

FUTURE: THE IP CHALLENGES IN 2019 AND BEYOND

What role does Airbus see for itself in the future of aerospace and mobility?

What are the three biggest challenges Airbus and the aerospace industry are facing today, and how does Airbus intend to tackle those challenges?

Which three technological trends are the most impactful in the aerospace industry?

How is Airbus positioning itself to embrace the future?

Megatrends, Technological forecasts and what can be learnt from the automotive industry

With the rapid advancement in technology, existing and new players in the market are addressing new technologies that are not built on the foundations of a century of success and innovation. They often represent non-linear, disruptive innovation divorced from preconceptions and constraints.

How do we do research & development in such a context targeting technical differentiation in a highly competitive marketplace supported by IP

Emerging issues around internal and external connectivity

The impact of advanced materials on existing technologies

Are design and brand rights becoming more and more important?

We are all faced by the significant ongoing challenge of shaping IP policy in light of a complex shifting regulatory environment (domestically and internationally). Moving forwards, how do we meet this challenge effectively in our sector, and more broadly, cross-sectorally?